What I felt while looking back

While teaching stress care-related courses since last year, I had the opportunity to stop and reflect on my own journey so far, my present, and my future.

Since childhood, due to the influence of my parents' work and the environment around me, I unconsciously became familiar with chemistry, and eventually became interested in the new field of information science.

It's not that I particularly disliked studying at school, but strangely enough, my interests always seemed to flow from within me toward nature.

Medical aromatherapy is a field where my many interests overlap, and it is precisely for this reason that I have continued to explore it so deeply.

Chemistry is particularly adept in areas such as drug development, material design for semiconductors, cosmetics, and essential oils, as well as the reproducibility and safety evaluation of chemical reactions.
Chemistry's greatest strength is its ability to accurately understand the properties and reactions of substances and consistently obtain consistent results.

On the other hand, chemistry alone cannot adequately address areas such as psychology and neuroscience, such as human emotions and behavior, or complexity science, which captures the harmony of life as a whole, or the depth of subjective experience.

I believe that these can only be understood in three dimensions when other academic disciplines and sensibility fields complement each other.

And I believe that this kind of integrated perspective is essential for the future.

In today's world, where causes of stress swirl like chaos, I sincerely hope that medical aromatherapy, which incorporates both of these perspectives, will be of use to even more people.